I think flouting the Joker’s copyright is funny, and I’m tired of pretending it isn’t

There's a new Joker movie coming out, but you might not get a chance to see it because copyright is broken.

I'm not talking about Joker: Folie a Deux, the officially sanctioned sequel to the Todd Phillips film Joker. I'm talking about The People's Joker, a crowdfunded Toronto International Film Festival selection that was pulled at the last minute, thanks to unspecified rights issues." The People's Joker is (as far as I can tell) an extremely loose retelling of the Batman villain's origin story, reinterpreting the Joker as a trans woman trying to break into the mob-like world of Gotham's stand-up comedy scene. Its trailer describes it as an illegal comic book movie," but its creators more seriously defend it as an unauthorized but...

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